Nothing New is an installation and art catalog I co-curated with Bushra Gill. It opens on Saturday, February 15, 2025, at 465 Collective Space (465 S. Van Ness, San Francisco / Yelamu.) The call requested no new work and no new words from immigrant and/or queer artists. Anyone who self-identified as meeting the requirements was accepted. A key aspect of the project is to archive a digital version of the catalog in the Internet Archive. In doing so, we create breadcrumbs for future generations to find that demonstrate the beauty and power of intergenerational, multi-racial, gender-full, cross-movement, pluralistic art and community building.
I submitted a layout of my Political Clowns, which were created between 2018 and 2022. Their stance is still relevant (and will always be.) They are bold in message and aesthetic. They build upon a visual history of protests as all reference images come from the Internet Archive. They have a sense of delight, fun, and provocation. They are just the thing I want to represent my art-life-work in an archive for future generations.
If you are in the Bay Area, I would love to show them to you and chat more about their underlying values and the process by which I made them. In fact, I have a whole slide presentation I can share. It peels back the layers and shows in detail how they are created and the ways in which I have remixed them into something I call Queer Comfortwear. But more on that when we see each other at on the the upcoming gallery sits!
Here's all the details for Political Clowns at the Nothing New art show:
Nothing New, curated by Bushra Gill & Jason Wyman
Location: 465 Collective Space - 465 S. Van Ness @ 16th St., San Francisco / Yelamu
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 2pm to 4pm
On View: Weekends - Saturday, February 15 to Sunday, March 16 - 12pm to 5pm
16th St. BART; Muni: 22, 33, 14, 49, 55, 12, 27 (within 3 blocks); Street Parking
Ramp into the gallery provided upon request.
